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barrels and three hundred and fifty flour sacks were 
required to deliver the seeds and conns to the schools. 
The success of the Association is largely due to the 
fact that nothing is attempted that can not be accom- 
plished, and only such seeds are offered as can be 
raised by easy culture and inexperienced gardeners, — 
as asters, dwarf or climbing nasturtiums, phlox, china 
pinks, verbenas, cosmos, four o’clocks, lady slippers, 
bachelor buttons, zinnias, coreopsis, marigold. 
Until this year the schools of the city were divided 
into four classes. A first prize of ten dollars and a 
in every pore, when he said, as he presented his limp 
offering in his little fat hand, saying, “Teacher, my 
flowers are hot.” 
In congested and smoky districts where floral cul- 
ture is unpromising, to say the least, some of the con- 
tributions were most pathetic. Jimmie Michael Dono- 
han said he looked all over his yard for a flower and 
could not find one, but as he had saved a few pennies 
he went into a milliner shop and bought some fly- 
specked and dusty paper flowers, the price of which 
was five cents, but under the circumstances he secured 
FLOWER SHOW AT WADE PARK SCHOOL. CLEVELAND. 
“Another Show Was Educative in Its Significance.” 
second prize of five dollars were offered in each class, 
the money to be used in beautifying the school grounds. 
In addition to the money prizes. Judge Dellenbaugh 
offered one thousand bulbs to all schools having a 
creditable flower show. Thirty schools entered for 
the prizes, although flower shows were held in other 
schools. 
This year the money prizes were eliminated and 
every school having a creditable flower show received 
one thousand bulbs. There were forty shows, more 
beautiful and interesting than last year. 
The principals and teachers entered into the spirit 
of the work with enthusiasm, and although the de- 
tails of arrangement required great expenditure of 
time and effort, their energies seemed tireless. The 
shows were objects of artistic taste and great beauty, 
results not easily secured when it is remembered that 
many of the contributions were in bunches of two or 
three flowers of different and discordant tones, and 
others anything but in fresh condition, as was realized 
by a little chap, with interest and perspiration shining 
the treasure for two. He put the flowers into a flower 
pot and triumphantly carried them into the school 
where they were given a place of honor. A little girl 
in the Russian Jew neighborhood brought her window 
box. Her father keeps a second-hand furniture store 
and she took a small drawer from an old bureau and 
raised a cabbage plant in it. A tall slender stalk and 
tuft of a few small leaves poorly repaid the solicitous 
care of the summer, but it gave her pleasure. A 
youngster of the second grade from the same school 
came at six o’clock in the evening, breathless, inquir- 
ing for the teacher. He had a dusty piece of golden 
rod, and said, “I went to Woodland Hills for it and 
walked all the way !” — a distance of six miles. The 
flowers in this show were considered so precious that 
each child wanted to tie a piece of paper or string 
around his offering and requested that the contribution 
be returned to the owner at the close of the exhibition. 
Better but not more gratifying results were secured 
in the districts where the children could purchase a 
larger number of seeds and had better opportunities 
